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22 February 2019

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit

8.6 |
Paste Magazine

Sprinkled with codas and half-songs, the effect is natural, not jarring, like turning down an alley, or rounding a city street and stumbling into another story
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8.5106049

8.5 |
The Quietus

The kind of album that makes you wiggle in your seat without even realizing, step-tapping on the dance floor in your head. It’s playful and colorful and has a captivating intensity
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8.3106074

8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound

An album that dips into club culture as deftly as it relaxes into burnt sugar
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8.3106025

8.3 |
Pitchfork

A peak example of their combined powers. It simplifies their sound with soft-focus blues, plush arrangements, and deep-in-the-ground grooves
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8.0106042

8.0 |
NOW

The Internet have delivered their most fully realized project to date
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8.0106119

8.0 |
DIY

Delivers as many hits as The Internet’s breakout third record ‘Ego Death’, and serves up some serious ‘70s funk and soul flavours in the process
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8.0105984

8.0 |
Evening Standard

It’s a pristine production that perhaps runs a little low on ideas. But even when they drift into potentially soporific neo-soul The Internet’s seductive songs are hard to shake off
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8.0105989

8.0 |
The Observer

No longer just a hip-hop band’s spin-off, the Internet’s seductive neo-soul is perfectly in tune with the mainstream on their accomplished fourth album
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8.0106014

8.0 |
Exclaim

Free of filler and definitely worth repeating, Hive Mind is the Internet we know and love, but tighter and more refined
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8.0105974

8.0 |
The Independent

It’s undoubtedly one of their best works: the band have a synergy that draws the listener in, allowing you to revel in their irresistible confidence, and hope they might invite you to join the party
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8.0105976

8.0 |
Q

Though for all the slick instrumental interplay, with guitarist Steve Lacy again outstanding, it's Syd's hushed, Aaliyah-like delivery that supplies the core emotional connection. Print edition only

8.0105955

8.0 |
The Irish Times

Hive Mind follows the laid-back R&B leanings of 2013’s Feel Good and Ego Death but is increasingly exploratory, gentle and sentimental
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8.0105956

8.0 |
Slant Magazine

The Internet’s most musically diverse and synergetic album to date
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8.0105957

8.0 |
Loud And Quiet

Unapologetically ambitious both musically and commercially, resulting in a collection of songs that are leaner, sleeker and more direct than ever
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8.0105958

8.0 |
The Music

Has a contemporary, lived-in sound that lends a rare intimacy to a traditionally more electronic, produced style of soul
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8.0105959

8.0 |
The Skinny

Squelching guitars and kinetic basslines are in ample supply and, like with Ego Death, romance is the album’s lifeblood
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8.0105960

8.0 |
Crack

A brilliant, electric album to keep you dancing through the summer
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7.5105987

7.5 |
A.V. Club

A step forward for this young, talented crew, housing nothing but scintillating performances from Syd and, in the rare moments when the group cuts loose, some seriously intoxicating funk
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7.0106004

7.0 |
Rolling Stone

Hive Mind, the group’s 4th LP, is its most polished, full of tranquil, yearning Quiet Storm and light-footed, live-band funk
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7.0105981

7.0 |
All Music

They not only leave space for one another's ideas and playing, but also involve collaborators -- Nick Green again on some co-writing, Moonchild on serene horns -- without overstuffing the songs, operating as one organism
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7.0106053

7.0 |
The 405

Rather than fall in love with this record from the get-go it needs a little airing and breathing time to get to grips with the finer notes, but it's sure to keep you coming back
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7.0106046

7.0 |
Drowned In Sound

This record makes a good argument for The Internet’s best work being together. The group do not always connect perfectly on this album but when they do, it’s magical
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7.0106048

7.0 |
PopMatters

The Internet's fourth album, their most focused if not their most compelling, is a distillation of everything that makes them so distinctively cool
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